Japan have made four changes to their starting line-up for Sundays crucial World Cup match with Scotland.
Victory over Scotland will clinch top place in Pool A along with a quarter-final against South Africa but Sundays game in Yokohama remains in doubt because of Super Typhoon Hagibis.
World Rugby say the game stays under review and a determination on if it goes forward will be taken just hours prior to the scheduled 7.45pm Japan time (11.45am BST) kick-off.
While William Tupou comes in at full-back kenki Fukuoka, that scored the winning try against Ireland, replaces Lomano Lemeki about the left wing.
Shota Horie starts with Luke Thompson favored to Wimpie van der Walt in the next row after coming off the bench in the bonus-point triumph over Samoa, at hooker.
Thompson will turn into the Japan player to make 13 Rugby World Cup looks, breaking the record he shares Hirotoki Onazawa.
Japan: 15 William Tupou, 14 Kotaro Matsushima, 13 Timothy Lafaele, 12 Ryoto Nakamura, 11 Kenki Fukuoka, 10 Yu Tamura, 9 Yutaka Nagare; 1 Keita Inagaki, 2 Shota Horie, 3 Jiwon Koo, 4 Luke Thompson, 5 James Moore, 6 Michael Leitch (c), seven Pieter Labuschagne, 8 Kazuki Himeno.
Replacements: 16 Atsushi Sakate, 17 Isileli Nakajima, 18 Asaeli Ai Valu, 19 Uwe Helu ,20 Hendrik Tui, 21 Fumiaki Tanaka, 22 Rikiya Matsuda, 23 Ryohei Yamanaka.
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